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To: M.Boekhold@et.tudelft.nl
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] User authentication bug? 
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 2 Aug 1998 13:42:29 +0200 (MET DST)
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Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 18:40:28 -0400
Message-ID: <22433.902097628@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> writes:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's possible that there are still bogus length limits on username
>> or password in some of the other PostgreSQL user interfaces besides
>> psql/libpq.  I will leave it to other folks to check that code.

> I think the perl-module behaves the same, but I'm not totally sure about 
> it. I have a script where passing a 9 chars username to PQconnectdb() 
> fails to connect to a backend, while if I truncate the username to 8 
> chars it works.

Hmm.  What pgsql version are you using?  A quick glance at
src/interfaces/perl5 doesn't show any dependencies on username or
password length in it --- it's just a very simple wrapper for libpq.

			regards, tom lane